• acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Two things are true at once:

    • They did crimes
    • They fought even bigger criminals

    And two things are true at once:

    • Descendants of their innocent victims consider them monsters, and they are correct and valid.
    • Descendants of the even bigger criminals that got “neutralized” hide among the other category, and they are dishonest.
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        No, this is the for the Communism-fascism discourse.

        When it comes to Communism-capitalism, my take is that while we are able, correct and valid to pinpoint the crimes of (big-C) Communists, we are steeped in (small-c) capitalist ideology and are completely desensitized to the ongoing systemic crimes of our own system, which are in my opinion graver than anything the (big-C) Communists ever did.

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          Fair point. I definitely feel like the shortcomings of capitalism will become more evident if/when we eventually switch to a different politico-economic model. For now, the propaganda is still prevalent.